Security News Update for the Week Ending March 20, 2022
This week’s security news includes:
- NSA is investigating whether Russia was responsible for Viasat hack
- Clearview AI doing something useful for a change
- BitConnect founder indicted in $2.4 billion crypto Ponzi scheme
- Russia-Ukraine war makes semiconductor problem worse
- NSA and CISA release Kubernetes hardening guide
- DoJ makes good on threat to prosecute using False Claims Act
- Russia may use ransomware payments to avoid sanctions
- Cyber reporting bill signed into law
- Third co-founder of crypto exchange pleads guilty to failing to prevent money laundering
- Anonymous steals 20TB of data from Russian oil giant
- Hackers claim to have breach Transunion South Africa using password ‘Password’
- Tech works are fed up and want to quit
- Russia is running out of disk space
- NIST releases ICS guidance to manufacturers
- Security news bites: (a) Incident and ransomware reporting requirement in just passed spending bill, (b) Germany warns against using Kaspersky products, (c) Deep fake videos enter Ukraine Invasion, (d) hacking is a business and (e) Russian jamming GPSS and satellites, imperiling airplanes.